Big stick may refer to:
- Big Stick ideology, Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic policy
- Big Stick, West Virginia, a community named for the above
- The nickname of the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61)
- The nickname of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
- Big Stick (band), an alternative music act who scored a minor hit in 1986 with "Drag Racing"
- Big Stick Music, a record label
- The Chinese monk-poet Fenggan; literally translated as "big stick"
Famous quotes containing the words big and/or stick:
“She who marries for love marries well; she who marries for a big house does not.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Does it stick in our minds as a touchstone
Of learning and la politesse?
For while the old place hadn’t much tone,
Two others we know have got less.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)