The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

3.109 Grant Clarke 1891-1931 and Edgar Leslie 1885-1976
He’d have to get under, get out and get under
And fix up his automobile.
‘He’d Have to Get Under—Get Out and Get Under’ (1913 song)
3.110 James Stanier Clarke c.1765-1834
Perhaps when you again appear in print you may choose to dedicate your volumes to Prince
Leopold: any historical romance, illustrative of the history of the august House of Coburg, would
just now be very interesting.
Letter to Jane Austen, 27 March 1816, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) ‘Jane Austen’s Letters’ (1952)
3.111 John Clarke d. 1658
He that would thrive
Must rise at five;
He that hath thriven
May lie till seven.
‘Paraemiologia Anglo-Latina’ (1639) ‘Diligentia’
Home is home, though it be never so homely.
‘Paraemiologia Anglo-Latina’ (1639) ‘Domi vivere’
3.112 Claudius Caecus, Appius fl. 312-279 B.C.
Faber est suae quisque fortunae.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
In Sallust ‘Ad Caesarem Senem de Re Publica Oratio’ ch. 1, sect. 2
3.113 Karl von Clausewitz 1780-1831
Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit
Einmischung anderer Mittel.
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
‘Vom Kriege’ (1832-4) bk. 8, ch. 6, sect. B, commonly rendered in the form ‘War is the continuation of
politics by other means’.
3.114 Henry Clay 1777-1852
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
Letter, 4 December 1801
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Speech in the House of Representatives, 22 January 1812
The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] can not have forgotten his own sentiments, uttered even on the
floor of this House, ‘peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must’.
Speech, 8 January 1813, in C. Colton (ed.) ‘The Works of Henry Clay’ (1904) vol. 1, p. 197.