Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

It really it is better to be safe than sorry.

Rather be safe than sorry.

Better to be safe than sorry.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me."
"Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.