2006-06-13 07:11:32 · 16 answers · asked by Dave B 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The word quit is defined as- to abandon, give up, relinquish, to depart from. it has nothing to do with contentment.
2006-06-13 07:25:33 · update #1
You quit while you're a head so you look good as you leave. Too many more situations and the genious might start to look stupid.
2006-06-13 07:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by pickle head 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When you're ahead, chances are, that you're already winning or have almost won. Remaining in the competition will make you lose! So if you've already won, you can quit. But do not quit before you start because then you won't win because quitters don't win. And as for winners don't quit, that refers to potential winners and winners of the past! I'm sure they quit 'after' they won, because if they didn't, they would only have 1 major win under their hats and wouldn't be so great as to have a metaphor for them!
2006-06-13 14:27:57 · answer #2 · answered by kit316 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that quitters are the idiot ones as if they keep quitting they'll never get the chance to win, still there are cases when you'd better quit to gain a bigger prize on the cost of losing a battle. Even when you're ahead.
2006-06-21 13:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by Iseult 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically not ALL winners don't quit. Look at Lennox Lewis. Quitters can win at poker can't they?
So the idiot who said that was in a different saying at the time.
2006-06-13 14:40:26 · answer #4 · answered by Mo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word quit in that phrase doesn't refer to quit as in 'giving up', but to stop, to be content.
2006-06-13 14:16:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pure sophistry here. Utter nonsense. Mumbo jumbo. Simply wordplay devoid of meaning. Falacious. And funny so long as you are not asking this seriously.
2006-06-20 22:35:23 · answer #6 · answered by Ouros 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "idiot" who said "quit while you're ahead" has always done what he's always did and as a result, he's always gotten what he's always had..no where!
2006-06-13 14:16:56 · answer #7 · answered by Travelers2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idiot who LOST said that
2006-06-13 14:15:09 · answer #8 · answered by BluhBluh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone who lost alot of money in stocks when the bubble popped
2006-06-13 15:56:13 · answer #9 · answered by jbaluyut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I f practice makes perfect and nobodies perfect why practice.
Its all the same fortune cookie crap
2006-06-21 14:03:55 · answer #10 · answered by chicco123uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋