Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Weeds

A good garden may have some weeds.

He that bites on every weed may light on poison.

Ill weeds are not hurt by frost.Spanish, Portuguese.

Ill weeds grow apace.French, Italian, Dutch.

Ill weeds grow the fastest and last the longest.Danish.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.Shakespeare.

No garden without its weeds.

One ill weed spoils a whole pot of pottage.

The frost hurts no weeds.

The weeds overgrow the corn.

Weeds never die.German, Danish.

Weeds want no sowing.