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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. -- Jean Racine
When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it. -- Stephen Lang
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. -- Theodore Roosevelt
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. -- James Truslow Adams
I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets. -- Evan Williams
I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the 'fiscal cliff.' At the end of the day, the United States is the biggest economy in the world, and the dollar is the reserve currency in the world. I think it behooves us to act in a much more responsible way. -- Lloyd Blankfein
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms. -- Jean Racine
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. -- Homer
...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. -- William Safire
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. -- John Calvin
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters. -- Henry David Thoreau
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness... -- Abraham Lincoln
It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. -- Peter Canisius
It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke. -- Plato
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. -- Alice Childress
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it. -- Francois Rabelais
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves. -- George F. Kennan
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so. -- Thomas Jefferson

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