David Butler may refer to:
- David Butler (American politician) (1829–1891), first governor of Nebraska
- David Butler (basketball) (born 1966), UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball player
- David Butler (director) (1894–1979), American filmmaker, screenwriter and actor
- David Butler (footballer born 1945), professional footballer in England
- David Butler (footballer born 1953), professional footballer in England and the United States
- David Butler (footballer born 1962), professional footballer in England
- David Butler (general) (born 1928), Australian Army officer
- Sir David Butler (psephologist) (born 1924), British social scientist and psephologist
- David Butler (screenwriter) (1927–2006), British writer of screenplays and teleplays
- David Butler (author) (born 1964), Irish author, playwright and poet
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“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That God has laid His fingers on the sky,
That from those fingers glittering summer runs
Upon the dancer by the dreamless wave.
Why should those lovers that no lovers miss
Dream, until God burn Nature with a kiss?
The man has found no comfort in the grave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)