Forty Foot

The Forty Foot is a promontory on the southern tip of Dublin Bay at Sandycove, County Dublin, Ireland, from which people have been swimming in the Irish Sea all year round for some 250 years.

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Famous quotes containing the words forty and/or foot:

    “Young fellows are tempted by girls, men who are thirty years old are tempted by gold, when they are forty years old they are tempted by honor and glory, and those who are sixty years old say to themselves, “What a pious man I have become.””
    —Martin Luther (1483–1546)

    “All my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay,
    And follow thee my lord throughout the world.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)