Sentence examples of "billings" in English with translation "биллингс"

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Nineteenth-century American humorist Josh Billings — a contemporary and rival of Mark Twain — is credited as the originator of the often-cited warning that “it ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Американский юморист 19 века Джош Биллингс (Josh Billings) — современник и соперник Марка Твена — писал, что «в беду заводит не отсутствие знаний, а твердые знания, которые просто не соответствуют действительности».
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