Authors:

Peg Quotes

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.8, Penguin

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.

"'You Say What You Like, Because They Like What You Say" by David Cromwell, medialens.org. May 13, 2013.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

"How to Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2005.

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.66, Univ of California Press

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.221, Read Books Ltd

I'm from Winnipeg, you idiot!

Twitter post from Mar 3, 2015

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.739, e-artnow

In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.

"‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

Winston Churchill (1955). “The World Crisis”

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

Sandra Tsing Loh (1996). “Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles”, Riverhead Books

Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.

c.1907 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.7.