Bergen Evans



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.