The phrase "a proverb about" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when introducing a saying or expression that conveys a general truth or piece of advice related to a specific topic.
Example: "There is a well-known proverb about patience that states, 'Good things come to those who wait.'"
Alternatives: "a saying regarding" or "an adage about".
Specifically, it makes her think of a proverb about a beach covered in starfish.
Chinese bloggers reasoned that the concept came from a proverb about black and white representing good and evil in society.
Seen, inflamed and agitated, beside a five-thousand-year-old monument, he can appear to be enacting a proverb about the follies of a choleric life.
Asked to grade the pope's application of that prescription, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor said he would pluck his response from a proverb about a curate who renders an optimistic, diplomatic judgment on the taste of a rotten egg.
"Has there ever been a time when you could have used an escape to Canyon Ranch more?" it reads, under the caption "The Vacation You Need" and a proverb about health, hope and happiness.
As a pump squirted muddy water out of a 72-foot hole that will help make up the Public Service Hall's foundation, he said the project made him feel like part of history, and recited a proverb about the rewards that await the bold.
What's that proverb about crying more than the bereaved?
His enemies were targeting him because of changes he initiated as dean, Stapel replied, quoting a Dutch proverb about high trees catching a lot of wind.
"Now's our chance," said Naoki Inose, Tokyo's vice governor, invoking an ancient proverb about attacking a wild dog only after it has fallen into a river: "On March 11, Tepco became the dog that fell into the river.
When a fashion designer includes a dried petal in his invitation and quotes a Cherokee proverb about man's struggle between good and evil, he's got me at "Hello".
She cited a Chinese proverb about beginning with the ferocity of a tiger and ending with the anticlimax of a snake's tail.
