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:
“Thus far with rough and all-unable pen
Our bending author hath pursued the story.
In little room confining mighty men.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“This far outstripped the other;
Yet ever runs she with reverted face,
And looks and listens for the boy behind:
For he, alas! is blind!
O’er rough and smooth with even step he passed,
And knows not whether he be first or last.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, roll into heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)