Harold Rosen was famous for his various quotes and rules about life, love, maintenance and other stuff, some of which are featured below.

Life’s Rules   

• Give me a 5 min warning 
• Never give a sucker an even break 
• Read you the riot act 
• Recycling my thinking 
• I’m not sleeping, only resting my eyes 
• Happy coffee time it’s happy coffee time… 
• We are running dangerously low on coffee 
• Whiskey is a terrible thing to waste 
• There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old and bold  pilots 
• Sleeping is for wimps 
• Keep your eyes peeled 
• Everyone knows what they are doing but me 
• House is lit up like a night game at Yankee stadium. 
• I got it on sale. 
• Corporation is paying, and I’m eating 
• U.S. Currency 
• G-Pop (general population) 
• “No towel in the bathroom ” 
• Living in a right handed world 
• Everything is designed for right handed people 
• Speed is your enemy, distance is your friend
• I’m OUT!  Of these proceedings 
• I’m having a better meal than the president of the American medical association. 
• Take me into the backroom and beat me up. 
• Read me the riot act 
• Fucking dumb senior citizen 
• I bet I am the only one that…. 
• …in brackets { } . 
• My nerves are shot 
• Dancing through hoops, I hate this shit 
• Senior citizen brain 
• Put an asterisk on it.
• Weather permitting …
• Some people can afford to be stupid and lazy 
• I don’t want to get written up 
• Nobody helps Harold 
• give Harold some credit. 
• Gentleman’s lavatory
  

Do and Don’t  

• Don’t buy things you don’t need 
• Don’t work on the floor, only gypsies work on the floor 
• Don’t use DOUBLE NEGATIVES 
• Don’t leave your home in pajamas 
• Stop playing while I’m working 
• False start abandon 
• Don’t make a federal case … 
• I have to declutter. 
• I had to do  a floor routine to get X done 
• Hold the camera steady. 
• Use the right tool for the job.
• Don’t travel on holidays 
• No food goes to waste 
• Always wear a belt 
• Always tuck in your shirt 
• Always make your bed 
• No mater what I do it is not good enough for anyone. 
• No talking while ascending the stairs, only on the landings 
• Don’t throw anything away, you might need it later.
  

Relationships 

• Have no one to please 
• Can’t afford love 
• Love is very expensive and the price of love keeps going  up 
• When someone says, I love you, response = “Love my ass. I can’t afford to love anyone.” 
• Built like a brick shit house 
• Girls get their claws into your back 
• Soft plump females
  

Personal Property / Home life / DIY repairs 

• Property Check 
• Don’t drop things. 
• No talking when you leave the private residence 
• Private motor vehicle 
• Private residence 
• Hanging around the house clothes 
• Maintenance clothes 
• Not letting a plumber take his family on vacation that I paid for. 
• Cheap cheap – the only way to live
  
  

Sports 

• I’ve seen it all before 
• Paid for 9innings, were staying for 9 innings 
• Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory-
• Greatest night in left handed history reference Reggie 
• Jackson 3 homers on 3 pitches 
• Gym ‘n a stick