شر البلية ما يضحك
“The worst misfortune is the one that makes you laugh.”
Some troubles are so absurd or bitterly ironic that laughter, not tears, is the only response.
— Traditional Palestine Wisdom, Palestine
Source: Traditional Palestinian proverb, shared Levantine Arab oral tradition, public-domain oral tradition
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