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:

    “The clothes on your back did not wear out and your feet did not swell these forty years.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 8:4.

    “Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed
    Droops on the little hands, little gold head;
    Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!
    Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.”
    —A.A. (Alan Alexander)