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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

"You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.358, Bantam

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.165

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.236

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

"Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.