This is an interesting book and not at all what I thought it would be. It is a book of quotations, but it goes further than that and explains the quotations and where they came from. Some are very famous sayings, and others are just by famous people. You normally expect one thing when you pick up a David Catrow illustrated book, and while the illustrations are great, they are all black and white and do nothing to move the story forward. They just make an interesting book more interesting.