History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

— Angela Carter

“The fires that burn deep within our hearts, fueling our deepest loves are indestructible; the power of the human spirit surpasses even death and…

— Sara Niles

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.

— Vladimir Putin

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

— Elisabeth Elliot

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

— Cyprian

Whatever inspires you fires you.

— Geoff Thompson

Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose…

— Anna Quindlen

“I look at you Across those fires and the dark.”

— Weldon Kees

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by…

— Ambrose Bierce

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person…

— Tom Robbins

If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an…

— Tom Waits

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do…

— Anthony A. Williams

You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it

— Laurell K. Hamilton