It was the old truism about losing the symptoms at medical test time.

But then, there's the old truism that, in Hollywood, a friend is someone who stabs you in the chest.

That old truism about this being the activity prescribed to inmates of the booby hatch seems appropriate.

Remember the old truism: a picture tells a thousand words.

They do say you can get used to anything, he thought, finding a strange comfort in the old truism.

Indeed, his research has indicated the truth in a very old truism: those with the most to do do the most.

It's a very old truism that the dead crave blood.

But the oldest truism of the suburbs is still true - that they're all about kids.

The experience affirmed for me an old truism of travel: you cannot really know a city until people who live there invite you to dinner.

Many of the old truisms have been turned upside down.