Spare the rod may refer to:
Proverbs , commonly mistaken as the origin of the exact phrase 'spare the rod and spoil the child': "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes." (KJV) A line from the 17th-century Samuel Butler poem Hudibras, whose wording is commonly mistaken to be that of the Bible verse: "Spare the rod and spoil the child" Spare the Rod, a 1953 Terrytoons animated short film Spare the Rod (1954 film), a Disney animated short film Spare the Rod (1961 film), a British social drama directed by Leslie Norman and starring Max Bygraves