Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish celebrity Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Thomas Robert "Tommy" Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar was a Scottish whisky distiller who, along with his brother John Dewar, built their family label, Dewar's, into an international success. They blended their whisky to make it more appealing to the international palate and Dewar demonstrated particular skills in marketing, travelling the world to find new markets and promote his product, exploiting romantic images of Scotland and tartan in his advertising.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.
A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.
When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond. — © Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond.
If you think you know it all, you are missing something.
No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.
Never invest in a going concern until you know which way it is going.
The quality of the article should be its greatest achievement.
A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.
We should not say how's business, but where is business
If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture?
There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.
Making a mistake is also an achievement.
Sometimes a step forward needs a step back.
The pause is a part of the walk.
Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.
Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.
Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back.
Keep advertising and advertising will keep you.
Yesterday's success belongs to yesterday.
Don't question your wife's judgment; look who she married.
A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.
Of two evils, choose the more interesting. — © Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Of two evils, choose the more interesting.
Leave for tomorrow what you can't do today.
Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.
Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.
Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.
Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
The further you are from a problem, the smaller it gets.
Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.
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