Perhaps it represents the old axiom that good news isn't real news.

Ground Floor: Buy the rumour, sell the fact is an old axiom of trading.

It's a very old axiom, but do you believe the end can justify the means?

There's an old axiom: "A couple's first quarrel is Cupid's laxative."

Real preparedness is an old axiom at West Point and it has been applied to football.

As for the law, there is an old axiom which says, Out of nothing, nothing comes.

He should have followed that old axiom-ifit sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

It is seemingly made to be heard, not seen, reversing the old axiom addressed to children when getting voicy.

The worldly old axiom, "Be virtuous and you will be happy," had been ironically paraphrased too often.

The old axiom is too often quoted as concerns us, "Jack of all trades, master of none."

We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

So, as any good investigative reporter would do, he decided to pick a few key pieces and see if the old axiom was true.

In very many cases of friendship, or what passes for it, the old axiom is reversed, and like clings to unlike more than to like.

The fact is that old axioms are being everywhere revised in the light of this war.

In the glow of the new light, old axioms of businesses, governments, and cultures are turned on their heads.