If you let the weeds grow for a year you will need seven to clear them.
More German Proverbs:
Love's anger is fuel to love.German
If you have no arrows in your quiver, go not with archers.
German
What one is accustomed to in youth, one does in old age.
German
One crow does not make a winter.
German
Except for the night, we could never know the stars.
German
Small saints too work miracles.
German