Possible Clues:

• Principle giving a team order
• ''What goes up must come down,'' e.g.
• 'Lost time is never found again,' e.g.
• 'Power corrupts,' e.g.
• Fundamental proposition
• Saying nothing in a mix up
• Old saying or precept 95)
• General truth of maxim uncovered initially over minutes
• ... saying 'I'm a buxom shape -- not my bottom, though'
• One may assume it's ten past ten in the morning