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:
“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)
““That rough tooth of the sea,” Kineo, great source of arrows and of spears to the ancients, when weapons of stone were used.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”
—Richard Rumbold (1622–1685)