the bigger they are, the harder they fall

Proverb

 * 1) The larger or the higher of a rank something is, the more disastrous and spectacular its downfall.

Translations

 * Dutch: hoge bomen vangen veel wind
 * Finnish: ryskyen kaatuvat suuret puut
 * German: wer hoch steigt, fällt tief; wer hoch fliegt, fällt tief; wer viel hat, kann viel verlieren
 * Khmer: ឈើ​ធំ​រលំឮ​ខ្លាំង
 * Portuguese: quanto maior a altura, maior a queda
 * Russian: чем бо́льше шкаф, тем гро́мче он па́дает (the bigger is a cupboard, the louder it falls)
 * Slovene: kdor visoko leta, nizko pade
 * Spanish: más dura será la caída