| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
|
| | | NUMBER: | 177 |
| AUTHOR: | Washington Irving (1783–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WASHINGTON IRVING (Geoffrey Crayon, pseud.), Tales of a Traveller, Preface, p. 7 (1825? reprinted 1972). |
| SUBJECTS: | Change |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Washington Irving Collection | | |
|
|
