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)
“What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
I am my brother’s keeper, and he’s sleeping pretty rough these days.”
—Derek, Archbishop Worlock (b. 1920)
“A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn’t want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.”
—Barbara Cartland (b. 1901)