home [OE] Home is an ancient word related to a Sanskrit term meaning ‘safe dwelling’. The Greek poet Hesiod, who lived around 700 bc, expressed the same sentiment as there’s no place like home, although its best-known expression is in the sentimental song ‘Home Sweet Home’ by John Howard Payne, first sung in the opera Clari, the Maid of Milan in 1823: ‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, / Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.’ The saying home is where the heart is dates from the early 19th century. A woman’s place is in the home also dates from the early 19th century.