“Men are obtuse. You have to beat them over the head with a frying pan to get them to notice things.”

“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.”

“Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!”

“Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them.”

“Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.”

“All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.”