Better safe than sorry

[Johnyxxx]

Hello,

Does anybody know how to put the idiom better safe than sorry in a different way? Simply some English analogy meaning the same but different in form.

Thanks a lot.

 

[BobK]

Is this good enough? (It‘s a bit like "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" - though not the same.)

b

 

[Skrej]

It's not exactly the same, but there's the phrase "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

There's also "hope for the best, but plan/prepare for the worst", although again not exactly the same.

Also, 'waste not want not', although yet again not exactly the same context as your original.

 

[Tarheel]

How about:

Safety is no accident.

 

[bhaisahab]

"Trust in God, but tie up your camel."

 

[Tarheel]

"Trust in God, but tie up your camel."

Yours is funnier than mine.
;-)

 

[Tdol]

How about If you want peace, prepare for war, which is Si vis pacem, para bellum in the original Latin?

 

[SoothingDave]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9×19mm_Parabellum

The most popular handgun cartridge in the world is known as the 9mm Parabellum, the name derived from this Latin phrase.