• The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state the dog is full of love. I've also proved, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest.

    Ogden Nash: The truth I do not stretch or shove
 When I state the dog is full of love.
 I've also proved, by actual test,
 A wet dog is the lovingest.
    Ogden Nash, Étienne Delessert (1987). “Ogden Nash's zoo”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang