Bergen Evans

thumb|Evans in 1954 Bergen Evans (September 19, 1904 – February 4, 1978) , U.S. lexicographer and educator. Evans was an English professor who became the master of ceremonies for the $64,000 Question and wrote Word A Day Vocabulary Builder (1963). He also wrote Dictionary of Quotations, a quote book annotated with witty and illustrative comments on the quotes by Evans, himself. Quotes [Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on. Dictionary of Quotations. Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. The Natural History of Nonsense XIX. We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. The Natural History of Nonsense. External links Category:Educators from the United States Category:Lexicographers Category:Academics from the United States Category:Skeptics Category:1904 births Category:1978 deaths Category:People from Ohio