Forth One - Hits based FM station for Edinburgh and East Central Scotland.
Forth 2 - Oldies, news and sport AM station in Edinburgh.
Fresh Air FM - Edinburgh's alternative student radio station.
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Radio One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Radio
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Radio "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Radio
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Radio There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Radio
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Radio He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Radio
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Radio Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Radio
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Radio "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Radio
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Radio Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Radio
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Radio Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Radio
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Radio There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Radio
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Radio The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Radio
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Radio "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Radio
