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/or ready:
“Virtue rejects facility to be her companion.... She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“He believes without reservation that Kentucky is the garden spot of the world, and is ready to dispute with anyone who questions his claim. In his enthusiasm for his State he compares with the Methodist preacher whom Timothy Flint heard tell a congregation that “Heaven is a Kentucky of a place.””
—For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)