She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
It is a long road from conception to completion.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.