Rough and Ready may refer to:
- "Old Rough and Ready", a nickname for U.S. President Zachary Taylor
- "Rough and Ready," a common nickname for a military company prior to the Civil War
- Rough and Ready (Alger novel), a 19th-century novel by Horatio Alger, Jr.
In places in the United States:
- Rough and Ready, California, an unincorporated town in California, U.S.
- Rough and Ready, Georgia, now Mountain View, Georgia
- Rough and Ready, New York, a hamlet in the town of Greenwood, New York
- Rough and Ready, Pennsylvania
- Rough and Ready, an Overland Stage Stop in New Mexico
In music:
- Rough and Ready, an album by The Jeff Beck Group
- Rough and Ready Volume 1, an album by Shabba Ranks
- Rough and Ready Volume 2
- "Rough & Ready", a song by Trace Adkins from Comin' on Strong
- Rough & Ready (music group), a 1980s J-pop music group
Famous quotes containing the words rough and, rough and/or ready:
“Virtue rejects facility to be her companion.... She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball:
And tear our pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)