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).
