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:
“... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.”
—Gish Jen (b. 1956)
“One stick of bamboo can not make a raft.”
—Chinese proverb.